Talk:Mechanical Turk

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final years

Why this neglect? Why didn't they keep the machine? Then what is the story of the fires spreading in Europe? It is really something that provokes anger and irony. This is an invaluable thing and they pass it on to each other!! we must rebuild the machine and don't pollutant it by electronics. 37.239.162.34 (talk) 03:28, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

French short film: Histoires extraordinaires : Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel (1981)

This film may be added to poular culture section.

I saw this movie on TV when I was a boy and it made a great impression on me. I finally managed to track it down online. The presentation I saw was dubbed into the Afrikaans language by South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and shown under the title "Die Skaak Masjien" (The chess machine). My childhood memory of the film is vague, except that I remember it as scary. The end of the film made a lasting impression on me. The chess machine was taken out to a place in the Mexican desert on horseback and tied to a cactus as a kind of death sentence. The policemen who tied it up and rode off was unaware of the dwarf chess player inside the cabinet. The final scene shows the dwarf's leg dangling from the box.

The only written information I could find is on the bdff web page, first link below. There are a few good stills and release articles that may be of interest on the same web page. The film is not available for purchase or rental online, so this page contains the only description of the plot, which is a fictional drama, containing the the characters Mälzel and Schlumberger, and of course the Turk, but with no baring on the actual biographical history of any of the characters.

The director, Juan Luis Buñuel, was the son of the famous Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director, linked to Surrealist era.

Title: Histoires extraordinaires (series) : Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel (episode 1) Director: Juan Luis Buñuel Details (from IMDB) Release date: February 7, 1981 (France) Countries of origin: France, Mexico Languages: French, Spanish Filming locations: Toluca, Estado de México, Mexico Production company: France 3 Runtime: 50 minutes

links:

http://php88.free.fr/bdff/image_film.php?ID=15189

https://m.cinemagia.ro/filme/histoires-extraordinaires-le-joueur-dechecs-de-maelzel-167600

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0341422/?ref_=ttep_ep1 Blewbubbles (talk) 01:21, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chess terminology

The article seems to use the terms "match" and "game" interchangeably. A match is a series of games, and it is not clear whether any of the "matches" listed in the history were more than one game. If so,there would be a score for the match. Wastrel Way (talk)Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 15:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese Museum

The article says the Turk was burnt in the Chinese Museum of Charles Willson Peale in 1854. I am trying to work out how this relates to (Charles Willson) Peale's Philadelphia Museum, but it is complicated, as CWP died in 1827 and the museum collection was sold in 1849. Nathan Dunn apparently had a Chinese Museum in Peale's Museum building from 1838. TSventon (talk) 21:08, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was indeed Peale's Philadelphia Museum, I have clarified both articles. TSventon (talk) 13:39, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change main image?

Currently the 'main' image, and the one that shows up in linked thumbnails, is one where the description says that "[the author] was wrong both about the position of the operator and the dimensions of the automaton". Meanwhile, another image in the article has the caption: "A copper engraving of the Turk, showing the open cabinets and working parts. A ruler at bottom right provides scale. Kempelen was a skilled engraver and may have produced this image himself."

Wouldn't it make sense to have the image that is more accurate and mabye even made by the original designer as the article's main image? 2001:1C04:3E0A:DD00:F52D:7C11:651C:7C5E (talk) 14:42, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]